review terms for FINAL EXAM

"You and the Atom Bomb"
Aldo Leopold
Werner von Braun
Bikini Atoll
David Bradley
"Duck and Cover"
Silent Spring
Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
October, 1962
Partial Test Ban Treaty
Operation "Ranch Hand"
"Earthrise"
April 22, 1970
Paul Ehrlich
Carl Sagan
Nuclear Winter
The Ninth Ward
"The Bridge to Gretna"
Joseph Fourier
Svante Arrhenius
G.S. Callendar
Charles David Keeling
Fukushima Daiichi
BP Oil Spill
The Goldilocks Effect
Gray Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure
Naomi Klein
Public Trust Doctrine
Joseph Sax
Environmental Justice
Externalities

Big History: the 'goldilocks effect' and avoiding catastrophe

In this talk, historian David Christian talks about the 'goldilocks effect' that has provided the foundation for life on earth and the emergence of the human race. At the end of his lecture, he also discusses the possible catastrophes that threaten our biosphere and our global civilization.

inside report from the Fukushima evacuation zone

Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?

Here's a link to the Frontline profile of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

& here's a recent CNN interview with the artist:

two essays comparing the Japan quake of 2011 to the Lisbon quake of 1755

Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post compares our response to the disaster in Japan to the European reaction to the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. Patrick J. Deneen responds to this essay in the blog Front Porch Republic.

short NASA clip on climate trends in past 10 years

This short clip explains climate trend over the past decade and possible outcomes in the decade to come.

from the NASA website:

Piecing together the temperature puzzle

Each year, scientists at NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.

Take a look below at NASA's collection of videos, articles and imagery designed to help tell the story of our warming world.

blog post for Chase Bentley

The disaster I chose was the Zaca Fire in
2007 in California. Here is a link to a local news source.

http://www.keyt.com/news/local/8362337.html

blog post for Matt Borrello

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/08/09/china-zhouqu-landslide-a-man-made-disaster/

I want to post this article on how logging and hydroelectric
development has caused erosion and landslides in China and Tibet. I
still can't post on the blog tho.

blog post for Christal Desmarais

This is a video about the continuing effects on the people of Romania and a small village weighing their positions about the possibility of reopening an industrial plant that caused a cyanide spill so devastating that it is often related to Chernobyl. While I only vaguely remember any mention of this disaster it rocked Europe for a long time leaving many without potable water. The news report in the video shows the lingering fears of citizens for future contamination and contrasts these fears with the opinions of those that would rather risk disaster for employment.

blog post for Grace Gottwald

blog post for Bridgette Shallcross

blog post for Tigran Shougarian

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/2011/02/ukrainian-famine

blog post for Justin Kammer

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/july-14-1977-nyc-blackout-10252811

This video is an original ABC news segment clip from January 14, 1977, the day of the 1977 Blackout in New York City. The summer of 77 (The Summer of Sam), during the Carter administration, was reeling from a steep economic and financial downturn, and high crime and poverty in its lower-income neighborhoods. The blackout, unlike the relatively peaceful NYC Blackout of 1965, was characterized by extensive looting and arson even into the daylight hours. The Blackout had lasting political and cultural effects, embedded into the memory of New Yorkers during one of the hottest summers the city had experienced. Had the blackout lasted more than 24 hours, one can only imagine the adverse effects it would've had on the Big Apple.

blog post for Chris Roy

blog post for Naimah Al-Hazza

NY Times: From Hiroshima to Fukushima

blog post for Matthew Holt

Here is my article and post for the blog. I feel that this article shows not only the man-made disaster of the oil spill, but it also shows the compounding of this mistakes by multiple parties. It is a very interesting article that I believe everyone will like.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/us/01gulf.html

Climate Change

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview.html

BP Oil Spill Article

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Oil_spill

Collapse 2210: Jared Diamond

This is a video clip containing the movie adapted from Jared Diamond's famous novel. It details various collapses throughout history comparing them to a theoretical collapse of our current civilization. If anyone would like an HD copy of this clip just ask me I have a 1080p copy.

Katrina levee failure

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187760,00.html

I generally take anything Fox News has to say with a grain of salt but I'd heard about this before so thought I'd look into it for this assignment.

A strong hurricane, true, but complete disaster could have easily been averted had the levees been upgraded to withstand stronger hurricanes...based on information we had a good 20 years before Katrina struck.

Guess we dropped the ball on that one, huh?